The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1887-06-17

uls enut0 properly having been con.
verified into cash by his lawyer-should
be buried with him. Soon after the
will was read the old man died, and II
was the first instance ON record that q
man ever listened to the reading OF the
provisions Of his own will to enforce
them by his dying word Of mouth a.
well.
Great excitement followed. The
nephews contested the will while the
old man lay dead, but the Surrogate
said its provisions must be carried out,
but that the contestants could 20 on
with the proceedings, and IL the case
was decided in their favor, eventually
they could have their uncle disinterred
and gather in the wealth that he had
chosen as lining for his coffin. Old
Horn was buried and his $4,000 with
him. The nephews hired mel to watch
the grave night and day to guard
against its being robbed, and curious
people focked to this remote burying
ground daily to see the mound beneath
which a fortune had been placed to
feed the worms.
My uncle's conscientiousness had
already made q great impression on
his people. The check for $4,000
which had been left to pay the debt on
the church, was drawn on q bank in a
ne,ghboring town five miles away. 1t
was made payable to the church trus-
tees Or order, and they endorsed it over
to my uncle and told him to go over to
the bank as his leisure, fetch the money
and pay the church's debt. About q
week after old Horn was buried my
uncle put the check in his pocket and
went after the money. It was early in
the fall. when the nights were cool,
and my uncle, being q great walker,
concluded to stay in town, after draw
the money from the bank, and walk the
five miles home. He started back
about 7:SO in the evening, later than he
had intended, but he had fallen in with
q friend and the time passed quicker
than he had. noticed.
"1he graveyard where Jason Horn
was buried lay along the road where
my uncle had to travel. It was two
miles from the town the church was in,
or a little more than half way between
the two places. About 9 O'Clock that
night two men came into the former
place III a great hurry. They were
pale and excited. They were the men
who had gone on duty that night to
watch old Horns grave. To every
one they met they said they had seer q
ghost-a tall white figure that seemed
to float on the air. Il had risen out of
tho ground liz the graveyard and
after touching at several graves
had started slowly toward Horns grave
in a manner that drove the watchmen
from the place in terror. After going
a half mile Or more the mon had
cautiously returned, thinking the ghost
might have gone away; but there it
was. circling in q weird manner near
the spot where Horns grave was.
This news caused q great sensation,
and the dead mans nephews were
much alarmed, and construed the app
paraition as a warning to them for
their action in the matter of the will.
While the excitement was at its hight
my uncle arrived in town. 1t was then
about 10 o'clock. He was very much
agitated, and the story he told added
to the fcverish feeling in the place.
After telling why he had remained in
the other town SO late, my uncle said:
".I was coming along toward the
graveyard alta moderate!.gait,' said he,
carrying my light overcoat over my
arm, and singing a favorite hymn,
when suddenly something white at
tracted my tention over in the burying.
ground. 1 came even with the road
entrance to the grave yard, when |
aw a tall, white figure standing erecta
q short distance inside the
sacred enclosure. I was mo.
mcntarily startled, of course, blu,
quickly recovered myself, and at once
determined to discover what the figure
was, and why it was there at such a
place and at such an hour. I entered
the graveyard and approached the white
figure. l moved slowly forward for a
few steps, then stopped and seemed to
kneel. Tho sky was clouding over,
but the wiceness of the object before
me made it conspuous in the darkness,
I drew near noiselessly, until 1 was in
reach of the kneeling figure. 1 bent
and placed my hand upon it. Instantly
it sprang out with q loud scream and
tried to run away. I seized it, and
found that I held in my arms an ap
parently young woman, screaming witt
terror. / succeeded in quieting her
telling her who I was and that I mean
her no harm, and she finally told m,
that she was the daughter of q farmer
living near She was a sonambulist
she said. Her mother had recently
died and was buried in that graveyard
and said the girl, 4 must have rlsel
in my sleep in my night clothes ant
walked here to mothers grave
".The GIRL continued my uncle
was shivering, and I threw my over
coat about her and led her out of tn
graveyard. She said her home was
half q mile further on in the direction
was going, SO I said I would see he
safely there. The darkness becam
deeper, and before we had gone far
could see but a few fest ahead Of me
When we got to the spot where tn
trees and bushes are so thick on eithe
side Of the road, it was barely possibl
to see at all. Suddenly I felt the 81,
take her hand from my arm. I stoppe
and spoke to her. She was gone.
CROPPED about in the darkness, but. sh
was nowhere to be found. She too
my overcoat with her, continued m
uncle, while q look of agony sam
upon his face. and IL she Is not dii